Having turned fifty I feel I owe it to the world to highlight just a few things that really irritate me - and that's irritate with a capital P, as in me off!
Imagine the scene. You are going about your daily business driving from one customer to another. As time goes by, your tee off time is getting closer and closer and you still haven't completed all your scheduled calls. The pressure to drive as efficiently as possible within the speed limits mounts. (If you play golf you know that that tee off time waits for no man!)
You approach yet another roundabout intending to go straight on and (as is the rule here in the UK) you look to the right, preparing to let oncoming traffic from the right have priority. You see a smart looking lady in a nice new BMW approaching the roundabout in the centre of her carriageway, no signal, so she's obviously coming straight onto the roundabout. You slow down to a crawl and then a stop as she closes in on you. Then, with no signal whatever she turns left in front of you! You didn't need to slow down or stop. All she had to do when approaching that roundabout was INDICATE left. Your day and your blood pressure would have been unsullied by moronic selfish driving. On an average day I can almost guarantee that out of 10 such situations, over half the drivers actually joining a roundabout and taking the first exit will not indicate. And why is that? I see it as a symtom of what is wrong with our country. People just don't give a flying stuff about anyone else. So what if you slowed down because you thought I was coming straight on? Why should I care? I didn't get held up, I just went on my way. I didn't even realise you were there, let alone slowing down to allow me to take priority.
Does this annoying trait in modern day drivers annoy or frustrate you too? I do worry that I am verging on road rage as I drive about my day, please tell me it's normal to get frustrated by this kind of thing.
What else gets to me?
To be continued....
Thursday, 5 July 2007
Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Internet Marketing Roadmap
Thomas Alva Edison:
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Now if you translate that to internet marketing, there are literally thousands, if not by now millions, of so called products out there all claiming to be the perfect way to make you rich with no effort, or hardly any effort at all.
Personally, I am prepared to believe that a few experts are out there quietly making fortunes. I am also prepared to believe that there are a great many more not quite such experts making small fortunes and shouting about it from the rooftops in an attempt to turn small fortunes into large fortunes. We've all read about someone who made a few thousand dollars selling stuff on eBay and then made many more thousand telling everybody else how they could do the same. That's how information products work.
I have nothing against that - makes good sense to me - become an expert and then sell that expertise. It's what everyone who works in a daytime job does. We acquire some skill or knowledge and sell that skill or knowledge - usually to our employers. The downside very often is that it is a buyer's market and there's often an over-supply of people with that self same skill or knowledge - keeping your price low. You have to be exceptional to get the highest price.
Now in Internet marketing, it's similar, except the numbers are huge. In terms of the cash being generated, you could argue that there is enough to go around and being mediocre rather than exceptional should be good enough to generate a healthy income. Being slightly above average could make you wealthy and being exceptional just has to make you very, very rich.
But I am sorry to say that you don't go from being a novice to making money in one easy step. Like every other walk of life, you need to learn, or be taught the things to do to be successful online. Getting rich quick is certainly possible, but those that do are not doing so by accident. They have an edge, or an education, or a talent or they are simply first to do something that hasn't been done before. In my relatively limited experience of internet marketing and the products and systems that are out there being sold to make you rich, they tend to fall into the category of "I've done this and I'll show you how". In other words - "You ain't gonna be the first!"
Over the years I've subscribed to quite a few internet marketing "opportunities" with a view to getting myself educated so that I can make a living from working only on the internet. Below are a few of the opportunities I've signed up to. I'd love to say they have made me rich - but sadly that's not the case. They haven't left me broke either - and on balance I tend to blame my lack of success on my own inertia rather than on a bad program - I don't really know enough about the subject to be confident to point the finger and say - "this is a scam" or "this doesn't work". What I can say with relative confidence is that I have not been able to make it work for me - yet!
1. Referralware
2. Cashculture
3. Freestoreclub
4. MLM Leadbox
5. Juvio
6. Day Job Killer
7. Affiliate Project X
8. Project Black Mask
9. Making Money with AdSense
10. SEO Elite
11. DomainProfiteer
12. No Limit Holdem Secrets (Believe it or not - I made some money at this!)
13. The Affiliate Masters Course
14. Clickbank - If it's on clickbank - and I want it I sign up as an affiliate first!
15. CB Mall
16. What Google never told you about making money with AdSense
17. The Micon system - another poker system how to win multi table tournaments - very good if a little difficult to decipher
As you can see - I've read a lot! I don't doubt that all these publications have some merit and I am the first to admit that the chances are my own inertia is what is holding me back, rather than any failing within these publications. I think, like many looking at making a living purely from internet efforts, information overload is a huge hurdle to overcome. I want to be an expert before I actually DO anything and the simple truth is - there is just too much to learn to become an expert at almost anything these days. BUT, how about if I am just mediocre or maybe just short of mediocre at one or other of the disciplines would that be good enough to make a little cash online?
One thing is for sure - if you don't buy a ticket - you are never going to win the lottery! If you don't DO something - NOTHING will happen.
So, if you've read this far, by now you must be wondering - what is this guy selling? The sad fact is - I don't know yet. I have a regular bricks and mortar business in the real world selling office supplies. It finances a reasonable standard of living, lovely wife and family, golf club membership, nice house, nice car, (S55 AMG Mercedes), holiday villa in the Mediterranean, but doesn't allow me the time I would like to really enjoy these material things.
So, my own personal challenge is to take a project and actually do something with it that will allow me to enjoy the fruits of my labours to date and maybe let me get away to the golf course a little more often. I don't need hundreds of thousands of dollars each week to make the change, but a steady, scaleable online business repeatedly generating a few dollars a day to start is the first step on the way. This blog is the story of what I choose/chose to do to try and make that happen and what I do/did along the way to achieve my goal - or fail to achieve my goal.
To be continued.
http://www.keenbiz.com/coolestguyontheplanetover39
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Now if you translate that to internet marketing, there are literally thousands, if not by now millions, of so called products out there all claiming to be the perfect way to make you rich with no effort, or hardly any effort at all.
Personally, I am prepared to believe that a few experts are out there quietly making fortunes. I am also prepared to believe that there are a great many more not quite such experts making small fortunes and shouting about it from the rooftops in an attempt to turn small fortunes into large fortunes. We've all read about someone who made a few thousand dollars selling stuff on eBay and then made many more thousand telling everybody else how they could do the same. That's how information products work.
I have nothing against that - makes good sense to me - become an expert and then sell that expertise. It's what everyone who works in a daytime job does. We acquire some skill or knowledge and sell that skill or knowledge - usually to our employers. The downside very often is that it is a buyer's market and there's often an over-supply of people with that self same skill or knowledge - keeping your price low. You have to be exceptional to get the highest price.
Now in Internet marketing, it's similar, except the numbers are huge. In terms of the cash being generated, you could argue that there is enough to go around and being mediocre rather than exceptional should be good enough to generate a healthy income. Being slightly above average could make you wealthy and being exceptional just has to make you very, very rich.
But I am sorry to say that you don't go from being a novice to making money in one easy step. Like every other walk of life, you need to learn, or be taught the things to do to be successful online. Getting rich quick is certainly possible, but those that do are not doing so by accident. They have an edge, or an education, or a talent or they are simply first to do something that hasn't been done before. In my relatively limited experience of internet marketing and the products and systems that are out there being sold to make you rich, they tend to fall into the category of "I've done this and I'll show you how". In other words - "You ain't gonna be the first!"
Over the years I've subscribed to quite a few internet marketing "opportunities" with a view to getting myself educated so that I can make a living from working only on the internet. Below are a few of the opportunities I've signed up to. I'd love to say they have made me rich - but sadly that's not the case. They haven't left me broke either - and on balance I tend to blame my lack of success on my own inertia rather than on a bad program - I don't really know enough about the subject to be confident to point the finger and say - "this is a scam" or "this doesn't work". What I can say with relative confidence is that I have not been able to make it work for me - yet!
1. Referralware
2. Cashculture
3. Freestoreclub
4. MLM Leadbox
5. Juvio
6. Day Job Killer
7. Affiliate Project X
8. Project Black Mask
9. Making Money with AdSense
10. SEO Elite
11. DomainProfiteer
12. No Limit Holdem Secrets (Believe it or not - I made some money at this!)
13. The Affiliate Masters Course
14. Clickbank - If it's on clickbank - and I want it I sign up as an affiliate first!
15. CB Mall
16. What Google never told you about making money with AdSense
17. The Micon system - another poker system how to win multi table tournaments - very good if a little difficult to decipher
As you can see - I've read a lot! I don't doubt that all these publications have some merit and I am the first to admit that the chances are my own inertia is what is holding me back, rather than any failing within these publications. I think, like many looking at making a living purely from internet efforts, information overload is a huge hurdle to overcome. I want to be an expert before I actually DO anything and the simple truth is - there is just too much to learn to become an expert at almost anything these days. BUT, how about if I am just mediocre or maybe just short of mediocre at one or other of the disciplines would that be good enough to make a little cash online?
One thing is for sure - if you don't buy a ticket - you are never going to win the lottery! If you don't DO something - NOTHING will happen.
So, if you've read this far, by now you must be wondering - what is this guy selling? The sad fact is - I don't know yet. I have a regular bricks and mortar business in the real world selling office supplies. It finances a reasonable standard of living, lovely wife and family, golf club membership, nice house, nice car, (S55 AMG Mercedes), holiday villa in the Mediterranean, but doesn't allow me the time I would like to really enjoy these material things.
So, my own personal challenge is to take a project and actually do something with it that will allow me to enjoy the fruits of my labours to date and maybe let me get away to the golf course a little more often. I don't need hundreds of thousands of dollars each week to make the change, but a steady, scaleable online business repeatedly generating a few dollars a day to start is the first step on the way. This blog is the story of what I choose/chose to do to try and make that happen and what I do/did along the way to achieve my goal - or fail to achieve my goal.
To be continued.
http://www.keenbiz.com/coolestguyontheplanetover39
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